Lively networking during the cocktail hour in the South Lobby of Riverside Church.

We stretched and we did it: $90,000 raised for immigrant worker organizing in the local food production industry! With the funds raised and with well over 250 Brandworkers community members in attendance, we not only hit our goal, this was the biggest dinner yet!

Local food-making workers are breaking through like never before and the 2014 Brandworkers Awards Dinner on November 13th did justice to their mission.

On January 1, 2014, Letitia “Tish” James was sworn in as the Public Advocate for the City of New York, the first woman of color to hold a citywide position in the city’s history. On November 13, 2014, the Brandworkers' community recognized her many achievements at our 2014 Awards Dinner Honoring Champions of Economic Justice.

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at the CUNY Murphy Institute in Manhattan, Brandworkers in partnership with the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center and the Food Chain Workers Alliance released a ground-breaking report entitled “Feeding New York: Challenges and Opportunities for Workers in New York City's Food Manufacturing Industry.” 150 members of the community came to this release to find out more about the issues that food manufacturing workers face in New York City.